I can't believe eska fuckign immediately ended the final boss fight by shoving the god artifact in a bag

I'm so wiped by that but I'm also SO EXCITE

can't wait for eska to pull every single party member aside and "so that encounter seemed to target your specific trauma real bad do you wanna talk do you need a hug"

ive heard this was a Bad One

it waaaaaaaas

wild

IT GOT

SUPER HAIRY

HA HA HAIRY BECAUSE SYNN

eyyyyyyyyyy

(don't yell at me, being on plurk is part of going to bed)

i mean I'm plurking from bed

so i can't

throw stones in this luxurious glass house

but FOR REAL THOUGH

eska was down to 1 hp because Eska Has No Self Preservation, both the Big Bads here still had a bunch of HP, and our ranger just went berzerk and was about to start attacking us IT WAS NARROW

also thank god the violin can cast Fast Travel

because thinking about it now: how were we gonna drag a 14-foot long body AND an unconscious seven-foot gnoll past all the enemies we snuck by earlier

glad we didn't have to carry a party member and a corpse past several sharks yeah

Y E AH

YEAH

DRAGS HANDS DOWN FACE IT WAS SO MUCH

thank you eustace your sentient segway carried us home

GOD IT REALLY WAS

and now we get to have the interludes where we UNPACK IT ALL EMOTIONALLY

how about we throw away the entire suitcase instead

that's also valid but consider:

therapy turtle is here

but who therapies the therapy turtle

therapy turtle just stores the baggage in their nice sturdy shell

that's not where the baggage goes!!

anyway i love you and i love eska and some day arakosh IS going to die for them BECAUSE TWO CAN PLAY THIS GAME

1V1 ME SCRUB I'LL HEAL YOUR ENTIRE ASS OFF

also eska is going to be so happy about arakosh sticking around

THEY LOVE THIS FISH!!!!

WELL I HAVE MORE HP THAN YOU SO THAT'S PATENTLY UNTRUE

I would make a joke about eska healing themselves down to like -10 hp but

they fuckign WOULD

this dumbass reptile

PLS

CANT STOP WONT STOP

eska, hurling all their HP into a garbage can because MUST HELP FRIEN

gosh and yeah arakosh has A Mission but also like, what eska said made them seriously consider what IS going to happen to this party without a cleric?? like they are all pretty good at healing themselves/each other already but TWICE NOW ESKA NEARLY DIED FOR IT and like, they can't let that happen either???

i did not expect arakosh to have like a personal attachment reason for sticking around this early on, as much as they like eska, but that was a BIG HMM

you're one of us now arakosh

also eska is gonna be real happy they get to stay in arakosh's life because... like.... THIS POOR FISH HAS BEEN THROUGH SO MUCH IN SUCH A SHORT TIME

and focusing on what you CAN do by concentrating on a mission is one way of coping, absolutely, but they also very much need to know they have emotional support and someone wants to take care of them when the WELL THAT HAPPENED hits

HRRRGH IT'S GONNA HIT

BOY HOWDY WILL IT EVER

and eska really wants them to know that they don't have to pick up the pieces all on their own! eska desperately wants to keep showing them those little joys and tiny wonders out there in the surface world so they can have even just a few threads to be lifelines

they!!! love this fish!!!!!

asdfsgfdgdfgdf

they're going to need it so bad and i'm so delighted!! i want this fish to learn curiosity and wonder and stop hating land dwellers forever BUT HAHA THEY ALSO KILLED MUNIN SO YOU KNOW

MMMMMMM YEAH

THAT'S

I don't think eska will be capable of giving a forgiving or compassionate answer for what they did

but they can be there with arakosh at least, and maybe that can help

it will. though they don't consider eska a land dweller really so. they just need to meet land dwellers who aren't shitty

there's so much about the world that's rotten and soul-crushing BUT YOU CAN TAKE IT IN YOUR BIG MEATY FISTS AND GENTLY BIT BY BIT RESHAPE IT INTO A KINDER, BETTER PLACE

luckily for arakosh the party is FULL of land dwellers who aren't shitty

OR YOU CAN STAY UNDERWATER WHERE WATER ELEMENTALS WILL KILL YOU BUT LIKE, FOR HONEST REASONS

THATS VALID BUT CONSIDER: you can't get donuts at the bottom of the sea

let's get donuts, arakosh

hmmmm

also cash tried to steal from the party and synn tried to kill everyone, the only decent people so far are eustace and evani and they're on thin fucking ice

i mean

i

yeah.

YEAH OKAY THAT'S. A GOOD POINT

but eska loves and believes in their friends!!!! they only steal from us and kick our asses because they care

THESE ARE THE WORST FIRST IMPRESSIONS EVERYONE COULD HAVE MADE AND IT'S AMAZING

LMAO GOD THIS DISASTER PARTY

on the bright side: evani did not actually get a chance to try to kill synn

i cannot WAIT for arakosh to actually have to acknowledge cash's existence and like, have a conversation with him or something

LMAO RIGHT

so there's still two people in the "probably okayish" column!!!

wheezes

god i cannot WAIT to hear how that particular talk goes

same hat, i fucking love cash

we stan one (1) trashbird

anyway sleep for real now!! planning for interludes tomorrow!!

HAVE A GOOD SLEEP

YOU TOO

honestly even Evani will have some good things to say about Cash at this point

but also TemporaryCancer /points at eyes, points at you

👀